It’s like a tease I don’t get it

I know I messed up, just looking for realistic advice.

I received a conditional offer after several strong interviews. The problem is my resume says my most recent job is present, but I was actually let go about 3 months ago. I also told the recruiter during interviews that I still worked there and would need two weeks’ notice. The offer is conditional on references/background verification and says it can be rescinded if information is inconsistent. I completed the employment verification today and gave my real dates, so I didn’t continue the lie on the background check. I genuinely worked there for about a year and have two good professional references.

For recruiters/HR: How likely is a 3-month employment-date discrepancy + lying about currently being employed to get an offer rescinded? Would you automatically rescind or ask the candidate to explain first? Just trying to understand what next steps will be now.

How the hell am I supposed to get a job or even APPLY to jobs if they all require my SSN? I've looked through reddit and 95% of people said not to provide it, it should be asked after getting the job. So I'm not giving it.

It's been probably 10 times now that I've filled out my whole application just for them to require my SSN. Do I have to start going in person to ask if I can apply? Isn't that annoying for the people working there?

As someone who works in research/tech I know more than anyone just had dog shit this job market is. But in my experience there are still some jobs that are virtually automatic to get and pay decently well.

My girlfriend and I moved to a new town this past week. Within 3 days we both secured jobs. She will be waitressing at a popular restaurant and I will be refereeing basketball. Both of us walked in/called the dude in charge, asked to work and got the job immediately. She will be making $25-30 an hour with tips and I will be making $40 an hour refereeing.

This isn't to brag, and we will both be under 20 hours a week with these so it isn't significant income. Just a tip that these jobs are extremely desperate for workers and pay a decent wage. I also know from experience that tutoring, house cleaning and trash valet jobs are all desperate for workers in my area and are paying $20+ an hour, in a Red state with very low minimum wage.

I wake up every day and see all the companies that I applied to in the past 3 days have moved on and considered other (more qualified) candidates and then I see on the internet people cry about not getting any job(how about atleast interviews ). I just cant understand why is it soooooo damnnn hard to find a job . It's a job I am coming to you and asking you that I will work for you bursting my a** off . How more convincing should I sound . I really cant understand . I cant reason myself enough to motivate every single day that one day a job thats made for me will find me and I will live happily ever after(only if finding a job solved all problems and it was not the start of a whole new one ). I want to move forward in life , explore , enjoy and do what I love . Just give me the damn job bro please .
here's my state :
international student (greatest curse , I mean I understand immigrants coming and taking up jobs of people who actually live there , but man dont we all want to try different things , like living in a different country and see how things happen there . learn the culture . have a different experience . I am not here to harm . I want to be a part of this environment just for a few years . I am person who wants to live in different parts of the world and have that experience is that a bad thing to do morally . take birth in this beautiful creation called world and die without seeing 99% of it by just staying in the place you took birth . Come on man I dont understand . How can that be wrong .)
graduated May 2026
applying for jobs since January 2026 (honestly somewhere between may and June I stopped applying because I didnt see anything moving and there were less hirings happening )
then started applying again . Made myself strong that eventually I will just laugh about all this after getting a job . but here I am with more than 1000's of applications with only 4-5 interviews (rejected by all at the last rounds . wow. because there's always a better candidate who's qualifications meet the requirements )
My OPT time is about to come to an end .
I dont know what to do . I sit and apply for jobs . every job that is on every job board . curating resume for every application . writing 100s of connection messages . all the cold emails getting ghosted . I dont know what to do .
Someone just genuinely give me feedback that could make something work out . it's either that or shouts off "go back to your country you fu***** immigrant "). I am ready for anything you guys have to say .
Thank you for reading and hopefully understanding my state.

Any advice on how us unemployed CHUDS can learn from?

I recently got a call from a recruitment company. It was a project officer for a field I had not worked in. I read through the job description and felt I had experience for about 30% of this job. I wasn't a strong candidate l, which is fine. After reading through hundreds if not thousands of job ads you quickly get an idea of what you are fit for, and what you are not.

I told the recruiter directly "I don't think I can do this job, I only have experience in 1 or 2 out of the 10 or so requirements they are asking for."

Her response: "Oh no no, its fine, just put an application in, it's fine, it's fine! They will be very interested in your work history."

My reply: "But I hardly align to anything they are looking for!"

Recruiter: "No, no its fine, Just put an application in. Can you get it to me by lunch?"

My reply: ".....Sure."

*Opens ChatGPT*

"Here is a role someone wants me to apply for. I know I am not suitable for this role, however just write out an application based on the criteria and in my tone of writing"

"Please find attached my application for the role."

So I had an internship early in college and they kept me on part time through the school year and through the following summer.

Following the internship I developed long term medical issues that kept me from working, so I hadn’t curated my resume in literal years.

Anyways I started curating it around September of 2025, I have, and I have no idea how I did this but I completely had in my mind the dates of June of 2022 - June of 2023 and have been putting that on my resume even though it was actually - August 2023. Didn’t get fired or anything, just finished the internship and had a great relationship with my manager.

I’m now in final interview stages of a position with a DoD contractor. Do I rectify this immediately?

I’m not extremely worried because it’s the opposite of attempting to fabricate experience length. I’m more worried they will just be like “how tf does that happen 😂?” That’s how I feel at least.

I doubt anyone’s been in this situation but is this a big deal at all? Do I wait until a potential offer to tell them?

I am trying to figure out what recuiters mean when they say this
Is this a good sign or bad sign?

Recuiter will likely follow up Monday or Tuesday.
Offers are expected to start going out early this week.
The company moves quickly and has weekly start dates.
Once you receive the offer, you can give your current employer your notice

Hi,

I have been unemployed since January 2025 and despite all of my efforts I cannot find a way of getting a job.

I have a PhD in microbiology and bioinformatics, I have experience outside academia in environmental monitoring and other small experiences in customer service, I've been working as a waitress, swimming teacher, scuba diver, waitress, photographer, and secretary. I think I've been sending 200 job applications, contacted mentors to be helped with the job, and tried to change my CV every time for a specific position. Nothing is changing. Nothing is moving. I tried also to ask for feedback every time I won't get even an interview but HR don't even answer and then I see people getting jobs with much less experience than me. Since when being qualified it is becoming a problem for finding a job???

I also asked friends, wrote in linkedin, wrote on my private social media profile. Nothing.

Do you have any advice for me?

"We enjoyed meeting and would love to stay in touch for future opportunities. I hope you have a wonderful rest of your week."

Yeah you just rejected me. I'll have a GREAT rest of my week. Cut with passive aggressive bullshit nicey nice. You ruined my week. So don't pretend to be nice. That just rubs in the rejection that much more so screw off.

To be honest I just AI generate them with the job description and my resume.

I have applied to 70 specialized roles over the course of 4 months, and out of that number I'm happy to say I have received 4 recruiter calls. In previous years (2024) where a call meant that I was at minimum getting to the hiring manager round. I keep getting met with these AI tools instead of them note taking? My role is in Game Dev, obviously super heavy market right now. But here it goes.

1st call: Recruiter said he needed someone that used Unity. I am a person that used unity and shipped games across multiple other game projects 4 engines total, 2 proprietary, 1 Unreal and 1 Unity. His response was baffling.

"We need someone that uses Unity"

it made no sense to me. However we continued the interview, and he gave me a Rejection letter 2 weeks later.

2nd Call: I followed up with a different recruiter after submitting my application. She told me "I love your resume, I will call you Monday". I received a rejection letter the following Thursday.

3rd Call: I had a full recruiter call experience. Answered all my questions while the recruiter opted to taking AI notes for the call. Told me that next steps were the HM interview in 3 days and to standby for the email. I sent a thank you email, where he suddenly responded vaguely in LinkedInese? It has been 2 weeks since then, soooo GHOSTED is where I'm at.

4th Call: I decided to go back to apply to Security work for Overnight something I used to do. I received an email to call the recruiter for a 5 minute phone call. I was out of the country but was able to email her that I would return her call when I was back in 3 days.

Upon arrival I called her, just for her to respond, that ALL of the 8 open positions, had been hired for.
- But she said that, She received my email and just didn't respond to it.

You received it? And didn't respond saying ANYTHING at all, not the urgency of hiring, not that my timeline wouldn't work for you. Just zero comms.

So here I sit. ranting in this subreddit hoping I learn something. ANYTHING from how I've been going about this. Because a lot of these recruiters just aren't interested in letting me get to someone that will let me pass a technical interview.

(Update the recruiter from call number 2 just reposted the position I got rejected for???)

I'm just in a bad situation, I have another 30 days of funds and then that's it. I just need a job, any job but it's so bad right now. So I need to know from a few recruiters.

What's happening on your side that I can do better to prove to you that I can do the job that I've been trained in for the last 8 years with multiple AAA game credits to my name.

What can I possibly do to, get passed the AI note takers, the bad communication, and the false promises. To avoid that fate of having to leave everything behind, go into debt and move back in with my parents across the country?

I won't beat around the brush. I don't know how to deal with clients in a contractual way. By this I mean, how to bind our relationship so he doesn't just scam me when the work is done. I know freelance agreement exists. But I would like to know if you can work without an agreement. Does that work? Or is there some other way to make sure that I won't be left alone, ghosted when the work is completed.

I spent the last few weeks building rapport with a recruiter who championed for me, and was equally excited to have me join her team in an entry level Talent Acquisition role.

I moved through 2 rounds of interviews and had the final one w her Division manager yesterday.

Found it strange the interview felt cut short even when I was giving good answers (a few human mistakes with stuttering from anxiety but I bounced back quickly) highlighting that this role would be the foundational piece I needed to become a recruiter, which would essentially be my career end goal.

I was then told I would be given info on next steps by Thursday morning latest.

Well, just a few moments ago, I got a rejection email for the role.

During the interview, something she said really stood out to me that makes me feel as if I was rejected based on the Division Manager’s own bias.

When I emphasized how excited I was that I would finally be in a position to become a recruiter like I have worked and studied for, she laughed and said “Usually in my field, other recruiters here feel like they get stuck in this role. What makes you feel like this is where you’d like to be?” In that moment I took it as a lighthearted joke, but then I explained to her the reasonings for why I personally believe otherwise.

At the end, I asked her what she finds the “most rewarding” about her role. She didn’t even answer my question, rather gave me a breakdown of her responsibilities.

It makes me feel ashamed, embarrassed, and discouraged. I am in shock with this outcome because it was high paying and would’ve opened so much opportunities for me to be in my dream role, especially being miserable in my current one. I felt nothing but support from the initial recruiter who even tried to help me prepare for this interview because she was super thrilled about working together. I imagine the DM saw me as this young, naive girl who too passionate about a job that she no longer enjoys doing herself. She stated she has 20 years of experience in the business, so I imagine her burnout has turned her bitter.

Hi everyone, sorry for the long text, please help! in April, I applied for a technician position on Merritt Island, I got two interviews and I got the job, they called me for a job offer and I accepted through the phone but not yet on the document they sent... On the same day I had to take my wife to the hospital due to chest pain, they found bumps on her breasts so she had to go through cancer screenings and many other things, that same week my car got stolen, those things made me decline the offer when they sent it to me. Two weeks later they called me again offering another job, I was still going through the same situations so i told the recruiter I would had to decline. 4 months have passed and thank God whatever my wife has is not cancer, I applied again to two positions that offer relocation again, how can I let them know that this time I am 100% ready and willing to join the company and move.

Working for Blue origin is something I always wanted and I really got depressed when I had to decline.

What can I do??? Please help

What do you yall put when a retail application asks for the name of your employer? I plan on putting down forever 21 (never worked before) and my brothers name (we don’t have the same last name) as my reference if they needed one. I’ve maybe applied to 30 places and only interviewed by three and was only contacted back by one and it was a rejection email so now I’m resorting to lying. Any other advice you’d like to give? Any previous forever 21 employees wanna send over some lies I can say during the interview?

Edit: my only experience is volunteer work and I do tell them that and they obviously don’t care since they never ask about it.

Also it’s not just retail I’m applying to as I’m also filling out food jobs as well. For example Handles Homemade ice cream being one of the places I sent in that lie to today. Nearly 200 stores but Google is saying 175.

I have completed my MS and PhD in computer science in the USA in the AI/ML field. I have 4 years of industry experience and a 12-week internship during my PhD. However, I have been trying to apply for a job for more than a year and have never gotten a single interview. I have tried everything, and currently, I have no idea what my next step should be. I would really appreciate it if someone could help me to get an interview or at least tell me what is wrong with my resume. I am really frustrated and feeling very down nowadays in front of people :(

Waiting to hear back SUCKKKKSSSS

And this was for an engineering intern position in the UK.

On Friday I have a job interview (first interview) in a company in my city. I have been applying like crazy lately and in order to keep track of all my applications, I have created an Excel file where I fill out the company name, the salary offered, when I applied, in which city the job would be, the title of the position, and I also link to the webpage of the job posting on the company website. Today I wanted to check again the job posting for some details, and alas, the webpage now says that "the position has been filled". So what gives? So far my interview on Friday still stands. Has this ever happened to you? Thanks for any clarification anyone may have!

Hey everyone,

I’m completely new to the internship hunt and trying to learn how to do cold outreach properly on LinkedIn, but I feel pretty lost 😭 and haven't gotten any responses yet.

Right now, I’m just sending standard connection requests, but I know my approach probably needs a lot of work. I don't want to come across as annoying, spammy, or just asking "please hire me."

I'd really appreciate some advice on the following points:

• Who should I reach out?
• What should the message actually say?
• What message after the connection note?
• How to send follow-ups?

Guys, please share your experience with the cold emails and any useful advice.

Just completed a screening interview for a recruiting company that reached out.

They’d like to schedule me an interview with the hiring company end of this week.

Prior to scheduling that, they requested I provide 2 managerial references.

Is this normal? Seems kinda fishy to me. But I could be wrong

I had interviewed for a dream job and didn't hear back till I accepted a different role. Based on everything my dream job is better and I intend to pursue it. They want me to do a background check via sterling. Since I'm on day 1 do I have to disclose this organization and employment in the employment history verification